We exist to make hiring smarter, faster, fairer, and without borders

100% bootstrapped, with no sales teams and no marketing. How does a fledgling company from the Yarra Valley region in Australia (one of the world's best wine-growing regions and where our founder Thomas Derum lives and works from home) build a faster, smarter talent engine than the companies with 10x the budget?

It all clicked when the world changed how it worked. As remote and hybrid work became the norm, it was clear that companies no longer needed to hire based on proximity — and that incredible talent existed everywhere.

We saw an opportunity to help businesses rethink hiring altogether. Instead of struggling to find people locally, we helped them find and manage great talent remotely by connecting them with skilled professionals across borders through simple, compliant employment solutions.

We weren’t thinking about AI or SaaS platforms yet. We were thinking about people: how to make it possible for businesses to work with the best talent, no matter where they lived, and for talented people to access life-changing opportunities without leaving home.

That’s how Outstaffer began. Not as a tech startup, but as an outstaffing company born from the remote work revolution, built on one belief: work should no longer be limited by location.

We learned a lot from the world’s longest COVID-19 lockdown (yes — 262 days!).

Some things changed forever, but one truth remained: great people are everywhere.As companies raced toward remote and hybrid work and faced growing skill shortages, Outstaffer became a no-brainer.

We expanded into the Philippines and the USA, helping companies find and hire exceptional talent faster and easier, from anywhere.Landing our first enterprise clients in the U.S. confirmed what we already knew: the model worked.

By solving complex hiring and compliance challenges, we realised we could help not just hundreds but thousands of businesses and open access to world-class jobs for people everywhere.

After placing over 250 candidates across six countries, we saw the future clearly: companies needed fast, reliable access to top talent locally or globally.

So, we started building the foundations for something bigger — combining expert recruiters and HR professionals with scalable infrastructure to help clients find the right people fast and manage everything that comes next.

Yes, we love the song Shooting Stars by Bag Raiders!

2023 was the year Outstaffer hit its stride. Up to that point, we had been entirely service-led — powered by expert recruiters and HR professionals working through an early MVP of our platform.

After our oversubscribed Seed round, backed by leading Australian investors, we began building the next phase: the Outstaffer Platform. Our goal was clear: to create a single, unified way for companies to find, hire, and manage talent across markets — faster, simpler, and fully compliant.

It was a year of foundation-building — setting the stage for the technology and infrastructure that would define everything that followed.

In 2024, we focused on the software and infrastructure that makes global hiring possible: our Employer of Record (EOR) Platform.

It was a year of expansion, learning, and reflection. We scaled operations across Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and India, giving clients the ability to hire and manage employees compliantly across APAC.

But as we built the platform, we leaned too far into the SaaS side of the business and learned a crucial lesson: finding and hiring the best talent is the key to every successful EOR hire.
Technology enables the process, but people make it work.

By the end of the year, we had that realisation — and began shifting back toward our core strength: pairing world-class recruitment with powerful, compliant software that makes global employment simple.

2025 was the year learning turned into action.

After more than a year of research, development and testing, we launched Outstaffer AI Recruiter internally. Trained on over 20,000 conversational AI interviews across APAC, it processed inbound applications, interviews, scores, and shortlisted talent faster and fairer than traditional recruitment.

In November 2025, we launched Outstaffer AI Recruiter, a managed service in Australia that automates application processing, screening, and first-round interviews — helping businesses save 15–20 hours per hire and get recruiter-validated shortlists at a fraction of traditional recruitment costs.

We also introduced Borderless HRIS — a free HR platform for Australian companies to manage their own direct employees from hire to retire.

This was the year Outstaffer truly began to stand apart, uniting AI Recruitment, Borderless HR, and EOR into one ecosystem, proving that we deliver both the people and the platform.